Stage 2 · Lesson 4 of 8
Finding numbers when you think you have none
Many people say their work had no numbers, but most work has something you can count. need that number, so go looking for it. Look at scale: users, requests per day, rows of data, number of services.
Look at speed: build time, page load, response time. Look at quality: bugs fixed, , avoided. Look at effort saved, such as hours a week of manual work removed.
Look at reach: teams using your tool, downloads, stars. Students can count project users, dataset size or the number of people on a team they led. Round honestly: "about 40 active users" is fine if you can explain it.
Common trapfake precision like "improved efficiency by 37%" with nothing behind it, which falls apart at the first question.
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Resources for this stage
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- CoursePaidGrokking Prompt Engineering for Professional Portfolio and Job Search
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Using AI to tailor a resume to a posting without generic filler or invented claims
- GuideFreeTech Interview Handbook: Resume Guide
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Free guide to engineering resumes: what to cut, how to phrase results, how screening works
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